What Is Jesus’ Love Language?

Spoiler: It’s NOT praise and worship!

You know well enough that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with which we do them. Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love. –St. Thérèse

St. Thérèse of Lisieux says, “Charity consists in works,” and St. James states, “Faith without works is dead.” God’s “love language” is acts of service, usually expressed as sacrificial. He receives our love expressed in obedience, where we sacrifice our self-will. His greatest act of love towards us was giving us Jesus as our Redeemer. Jesus’ greatest act of loving obedience was to do His Father’s will.

Therefore, words don’t prove the existence of either virtue. Just before telling the parable of the wise and foolish builders, Jesus challenged his listeners with this question: “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?” He also said that what we do and say to others, we do and say to Him.

And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers,f you did it to me.’ –Matthew 25:40

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